Intelligent Distributed Video Surveillance Systems

Sergio A. Velastin

ISBN 10: 0863415040 / ISBN 13: 9780863415043

Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology, GB, 2005

About this Item

There is a growing interest in the development and deployment of surveillance systems in public and private locations. Conventional approaches rely on the installation of wide area CCTV (Closed Circuit Television), but the explosion in the numbers of cameras that have to be monitored, the increasing costs of providing monitoring personnel and the limitations that humans have to maintain sustained levels of concentration severely limit the effectiveness of these systems. Advances in information and communication technologies, such as computer vision for face recognition and human behaviour analysis, digital annotation and storage of video, transmission of video/audio streams over wired and wireless networks, can potentially provide significant improvements in this field. The book consists of a coherent selection of extended versions of presentations made in two successful IEE symposia on Intelligent Distributed Surveillance Systems (IDSS). It surveys recent development in distributed intelligent surveillance systems and brings together the work of researchers and engineers, system integrators and managers of public and private organisations likely to use such systems.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Intelligent Distributed Video Surveillance Systems
• Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology, GB
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0863415040
• ISBN 13: 9780863415043
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

There is a growing interest in the development and deployment of surveillance systems in public and private locations. Conventional approaches rely on the installation of wide area CCTV (Closed Circuit Television), but the explosion in the numbers of cameras that have to be monitored, the increasing costs of providing monitoring personnel and the limitations that humans have to maintain sustained levels of concentration severely limit the effectiveness of these systems. Advances in information and communication technologies, such as computer vision for face recognition and human behaviour analysis, digital annotation and storage of video, transmission of video/audio streams over wired and wireless networks, can potentially provide significant improvements in this field.

The book consists of a coherent selection of extended versions of presentations made in two successful IEE symposia on Intelligent Distributed Surveillance Systems (IDSS). It surveys recent development in distributed intelligent surveillance systems and brings together the work of researchers and engineers, system integrators and managers of public and private organisations likely to use such systems.

About the Authors

Dr Sergio A. Velastin is a Reader at the Digital Imaging Research Centre at Kingston University, London.

Dr Paolo Remagnino is a Senior Lecturer at the Digital Imaging Research Centre at Kingston University, London.